Ahhh, Conkers! British kids will take a Horse Chestnut, thread a string through it, and then swing the nuts against each other trying to knock the other kid’s off its string.
In the Colin Firth version of “Pride and Prejudice”, he referred to it in his conversation with Aunt Gardiner concerning the village of Lambton when he said, “I used to run to it everyday during the horse chestnut season”. He didn’t want to eat them; he wanted to play Conkers with them.
Herb Thiel Premium Member over 6 years ago
What are they doing?
Kalkkuna over 6 years ago
A Brit thing letting a type of tree seed/berry bang against another until one breaks.
PMark over 6 years ago
Ahhh, Conkers! British kids will take a Horse Chestnut, thread a string through it, and then swing the nuts against each other trying to knock the other kid’s off its string.
In the Colin Firth version of “Pride and Prejudice”, he referred to it in his conversation with Aunt Gardiner concerning the village of Lambton when he said, “I used to run to it everyday during the horse chestnut season”. He didn’t want to eat them; he wanted to play Conkers with them.
Crandlemire over 6 years ago
Thus giving us the term “He’s off his nut”!
bobpickett1 over 6 years ago
We played the same game in Mass years ago.
skyriderwest over 6 years ago
Used to play it when I lived in Britain.